Lynn Dicks
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Lynn Dicks's Degrees
- Masters Ecology University of Aberdeen
- Bachelors Zoology University of Aberdeen
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Lynn Dicks is a conservation scientist and ecologist in the UK. She is Professor of Zoology at the University of Cambridge, and Honorary Reader at the University of East Anglia, and an expert in sustainable farming and insect conservation.
Lynn Dicks's Published Works
Published Works
- Safeguarding pollinators and their values to human well-being (2016) (998)
- The role of agri-environment schemes in conservation and environmental management (2015) (631)
- Horizon scan of global conservation issues for 2011. (2011) (499)
- EU agricultural reform fails on biodiversity (2014) (481)
- Summary for policymakers of the assessment report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) on pollinators, pollination and food production (2016) (368)
- Global assessment of agricultural system redesign for sustainable intensification (2018) (350)
- Decision support tools for agriculture: Towards effective design and delivery (2016) (305)
- Providing foraging resources for bumblebees in intensively farmed landscapes (2005) (244)
- Compartmentalization in plant–insect flower visitor webs (2002) (239)
- Ecological intensification to mitigate impacts of conventional intensive land use on pollinators and pollination (2017) (212)
- How can higher-yield farming help to spare nature? (2016) (204)
- A horizon scan of global conservation issues for 2013. (2013) (198)
- Organising evidence for environmental management decisions: a '4S' hierarchy. (2014) (188)
- Harnessing the biodiversity value of Central and Eastern European farmland (2015) (184)
- The effect of scientific evidence on conservation practitioners’ management decisions (2014) (184)
- The potential for indirect effects between co-flowering plants via shared pollinators depends on resource abundance, accessibility and relatedness. (2014) (166)
- Ten policies for pollinators (2016) (136)
- A horizon scan of future threats and opportunities for pollinators and pollination (2016) (132)
- Ecosystem Service Valuations of Mangrove Ecosystems to Inform Decision Making and Future Valuation Exercises (2014) (129)
- Protecting an ecosystem service: approaches to understanding and mitigating threats to wild insect pollinators (2016) (128)
- How much flower‐rich habitat is enough for wild pollinators? Answering a key policy question with incomplete knowledge (2015) (121)
- A 2018 Horizon Scan of Emerging Issues for Global Conservation and Biological Diversity. (2018) (111)
- A Transparent Process for “Evidence‐Informed” Policy Making (2014) (109)
- A 2017 Horizon Scan of Emerging Issues for Global Conservation and Biological Diversity. (2017) (105)
- How can local and traditional knowledge be effectively incorporated into international assessments? (2013) (97)
- Working landscapes need at least 20% native habitat (2020) (97)
- Working landscapes need at least 20% native habitat (2020) (97)
- A horizon scan of global conservation issues for 2014 (2014) (90)
- Global importance of vertebrate pollinators for plant reproductive success: a meta-analysis (2018) (84)
- Building a tool to overcome barriers in research-implementation spaces: The Conservation Evidence database (2019) (82)
- Policies for Ecological Intensification of Crop Production. (2019) (82)
- Identifying key knowledge needs for evidence‐based conservation of wild insect pollinators: a collaborative cross‐sectoral exercise (2013) (82)
- The assessment report on pollinators, pollination and food production: summary for policymakers (2016) (80)
- Eight problems with literature reviews and how to fix them (2020) (79)
- Quantifying the Impact and Relevance of Scientific Research (2011) (77)
- Integrated farm management for sustainable agriculture: Lessons for knowledge exchange and policy (2019) (74)
- A global-scale expert assessment of drivers and risks associated with pollinator decline (2021) (72)
- A horizon scan of global conservation issues for 2015. (2015) (72)
- Networking Our Way to Better Ecosystem Service Provision. (2016) (70)
- Solution scanning as a key policy tool: identifying management interventions to help maintain and enhance regulating ecosystem services (2014) (68)
- A critical analysis of the potential for EU Common Agricultural Policy measures to support wild pollinators on farmland (2020) (67)
- Worldwide insect declines: An important message, but interpret with caution (2019) (66)
- Prioritization of knowledge needs for sustainable aquaculture: a national and global perspective (2015) (65)
- Biocultural approaches to pollinator conservation (2019) (64)
- A Horizon Scan of Global Conservation Issues for 2016. (2016) (63)
- Moving from frugivory to seed dispersal: Incorporating the functional outcomes of interactions in plant–frugivore networks (2018) (61)
- Standardized reporting of the costs of management interventions for biodiversity conservation (2018) (60)
- A horizon scan of global conservation issues for 2012. (2012) (59)
- A typology of barriers and enablers of scientific evidence use in conservation practice. (2019) (59)
- Effects of cover crops on multiple ecosystem services: Ten meta-analyses of data from arable farmland in California and the Mediterranean (2019) (51)
- Motifs in bipartite ecological networks: uncovering indirect interactions (2018) (51)
- Involving stakeholders in agricultural decision support systems: improving user-centred design (2018) (50)
- Bees, lies and evidence-based policy (2013) (48)
- Delivering Integrated Pest and Pollinator Management (IPPM). (2020) (48)
- Exploring the spatialities of technological and user re-scripting: the case of decision support tools in UK agriculture (2018) (45)
- Qualitative methods for ecologists and conservation scientists (2018) (44)
- Farmland Conservation: Evidence for the effects of interventions in northern and western Europe (2014) (43)
- Enhancing road verges to aid pollinator conservation: A review (2020) (41)
- Knowledge synthesis for environmental decisions : an evaluation of existing methods, and guidance for their selection, use and development : a report from the EKLIPSE project (2017) (41)
- What Do We Need to Know to Enhance the Environmental Sustainability of Agricultural Production? A Prioritisation of Knowledge Needs for the UK Food System (2013) (41)
- A Horizon Scan of Emerging Issues for Global Conservation in 2019. (2019) (41)
- What agricultural practices are most likely to deliver “sustainable intensification” in the UK? (2018) (37)
- A Horizon Scan of Emerging Global Biological Conservation Issues for 2020. (2019) (33)
- Abundance drives broad patterns of generalisation in plant-hummingbird pollination networks (2018) (32)
- Voluntary non-monetary approaches for implementing conservation (2016) (32)
- bmotif: a package for motif analyses of bipartite networks (2018) (31)
- Collating and validating indigenous and local knowledge to apply multiple knowledge systems to an environmental challenge: A case-study of pollinators in India (2017) (30)
- Structured analysis of conservation strategies applied to temporary conservation (2014) (27)
- Linking farmer and beekeeper preferences with ecological knowledge to improve crop pollination (2019) (27)
- What works in conservation? Using expert assessment of summarised evidence to identify practices that enhance natural pest control in agriculture (2016) (27)
- A 2021 Horizon Scan of Emerging Global Biological Conservation Issues. (2020) (25)
- The need for coordinated transdisciplinary research infrastructures for pollinator conservation and crop pollination resilience (2019) (23)
- Priority knowledge needs for implementing nature-based solutions in the Mediterranean islands (2021) (22)
- Evidence Synthesis as the Basis for Decision Analysis: A Method of Selecting the Best Agricultural Practices for Multiple Ecosystem Services (2019) (22)
- Conservation practice could benefit from routine testing and publication of management outcomes (2013) (22)
- Barriers to ecological restoration in Europe: expert perspectives (2021) (22)
- Bird Conservation (2018) (19)
- What Works in Conservation 2018 (2017) (17)
- Semi-quantitative characterisation of mixed pollen samples using MinION sequencing and Reverse Metagenomics (RevMet) (2019) (17)
- Comparative effectiveness research: the missing link in conservation (2014) (17)
- Developing pathways to improve smallholder agricultural productivity through ecological intensification technologies in semi-arid Limpopo, South Africa (2019) (16)
- Semi‐quantitative characterisation of mixed pollen samples using MinION sequencing and Reverse Metagenomics (RevMet) (2019) (15)
- A global assessment of drivers and risks associated with pollinator decline (2020) (15)
- Annex II to decision IPBES-4/1 Summary for policymakers of the assessment report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services on pollinators, pollination and food production (2017) (15)
- Impacts of multiple pollutants on pollinator activity in road verges (2021) (14)
- THE CREATURES TIME FORGOT (1999) (14)
- A horizon scan of global biological conservation issues for 2022. (2021) (14)
- What Works in Conservation 2019 (2019) (13)
- EKLIPSE: engaging knowledge holders and networks for evidence-informed European policy on biodiversity and ecosystem services (2019) (12)
- What Works in Conservation: 2017 (2017) (11)
- Restoration and Conservation of Priority Areas of Caatinga’s Semi-Arid Forest Remnants Can Support Connectivity within an Agricultural Landscape (2021) (10)
- Enabling acceptance and use of ecological intensification options through engaging smallholder farmers in semi-arid rural Limpopo and Eastern Cape, South Africa (2020) (10)
- What Works in Conservation 2021 (2021) (9)
- Knowledge needs, available practices, and future challenges in agricultural soils (2016) (9)
- Developing incentives for farmers to support pollinators: contrasting approaches from Europe and the United States (2016) (9)
- Editorial: summary for policymakers of the thematic assessment on pollinators, pollination and food production (2016) (8)
- Impacts of selected Ecological Focus Area options in European farmed landscapes on climate regulation and pollination services: a systematic map protocol (2018) (8)
- Comparing groups versus individuals in decision making: a systematic review protocol (2016) (7)
- What Works in Conservation 2015 (2015) (7)
- Marine Faunal Diversity In India Taxonomy Ecology And Conservation (2015) (7)
- Insect pollinators: linking research and policy (2012) (6)
- Estimating the risk of species interaction loss in mutualistic communities (2020) (6)
- From science to society: implementing effective strategies to improve wild pollinator health (2022) (6)
- Insect pollinators: linking research and policy. Workshop report. (2012) (6)
- Knowledge needs, available practices and future challenges in agricultural soils (2016) (6)
- What Works in Conservation 2020 (2020) (5)
- Vulnerable species interactions are important for the stability of mutualistic networks (2019) (5)
- Building capacity for mainstreaming nature-based solutions into environmental policy and landscape planning (2020) (5)
- Over-simplifying evidence synthesis? A response to (2017) (4)
- Giving stakeholders a voice in governance: Biodiversity priorities for New Zealand's agriculture (2021) (3)
- A framework and case study to systematically identify long‐term insect abundance and diversity datasets (2022) (3)
- Solution scanning as a key policy tool (2014) (3)
- What Works in Conservation 2018 (PDF) (2018) (3)
- Abundance drives generalisation in hummingbird-plant pollination networks (2018) (3)
- Managing farmed landscapes for pollinating insects (2016) (3)
- The original rebels (2005) (2)
- Author Correction: A global-scale expert assessment of drivers and risks associated with pollinator decline (2021) (2)
- Correction: Ecosystem Service Valuations of Mangrove Ecosystems to Inform Decision Making and Future Valuation Exercises (2014) (2)
- Assessing nature-based solutions uptake in a Mediterranean climate: insights from the case-study of Malta (2022) (2)
- ReNature: creating the first nature-based solutions compendium in the Mediterranean (2020) (2)
- Uncovering indirect interactions in bipartite ecological networks (2018) (2)
- 4. FARMLAND CONSERVATION (2019) (2)
- Wild Pollinators in Arable Habitats: Trends, Threats and Opportunities (2020) (2)
- Facilitating the wise use of experts and evidence to inform local environmental decisions (2022) (1)
- Small wonders (2006) (1)
- Global importance of vertebrate pollinators for plant 1 reproductive success : a meta-analysis 2 3 (2017) (1)
- What do we need to know to enhance the environmental sustainability of agricultural production ? (2013) (1)
- 11. SOME ASPECTS OF ENHANCING NATURAL PEST CONTROL (2019) (1)
- Mystery in the mire (2003) (1)
- Best management practices for multiple ecosystem services: subject-wide evidence synthesis and multi-criteria decision analysis (2018) (1)
- Author Correction: Eight problems with literature reviews and how to fix them (2020) (1)
- Grand challenges in entomology: Priorities for action in the coming decades (2023) (1)
- Capacity-building and networking events for nature-based solutions and re-naturing in Malta (2020) (1)
- Policies for Ecological Intensi fi cation of Crop Production (2019) (1)
- Author Correction: Biocultural approaches to pollinator conservation (2019) (1)
- 3. BIRD CONSERVATION (2019) (1)
- Too close for comfort (2003) (0)
- Figure 13 from: Tomaskinova J, Geneletti D, Dicks LV, Grace M, Collier M, Longato D, Stoev P, Sapundzhieva A, Balzan MV (2021) Capacity-building as an instrument to foster the implementation of nature-based solutions. Research Ideas and Outcomes 7: e77666. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.7.e77666 (2021) (0)
- Rapid assessment of insect pollination services to inform decision‐making (2022) (0)
- Sustainable soil management in the UK : a survey of current practices and how they relate to the principles of regenerative agriculture (2023) (0)
- 3.9 Threat: Natural system modifications (2015) (0)
- 4.10. Threat: Invasive and other problematic species (2015) (0)
- 10.4 Threat: Invasive fish (2017) (0)
- Figure 2 from: Tomaskinova J, Geneletti D, Dicks LV, Grace M, Collier M, Longato D, Stoev P, Sapundzhieva A, Balzan MV (2021) Capacity-building as an instrument to foster the implementation of nature-based solutions. Research Ideas and Outcomes 7: e77666. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.7.e77666 (2021) (0)
- 7.2 All farming systems (2015) (0)
- 6.11. Habitat creation and restoration (2018) (0)
- 1.10. Threat: Climate change and severe weather (2015) (0)
- 1.13 Species management (2015) (0)
- 6.2 Threat: Invasive molluscs (2017) (0)
- 9.2. Promoting health and welfare in captive carnivores (felids, canids and ursids) through feeding practices (2018) (0)
- Policies for ecological intensification of crop production 6 8 (2019) (0)
- Management and drivers of change of pollinating insects and pollination services. National Pollinator Strategy: for bees and other pollinators in England, Evidence statements and Summary of Evidence (2019) (0)
- 3.8 Threat: Human intrusions and disturbance (2015) (0)
- 3.12 Threat: Pollution (2015) (0)
- 7.1. Reducing agricultural pollution (2015) (0)
- 5.7 Threat: Pollution (2017) (0)
- 7.4. Livestock and pasture farming (2015) (0)
- 4.1 All farming systems (2015) (0)
- Figure 3 from: Tomaskinova J, Geneletti D, Dicks LV, Grace M, Collier M, Longato D, Stoev P, Sapundzhieva A, Balzan MV (2021) Capacity-building as an instrument to foster the implementation of nature-based solutions. Research Ideas and Outcomes 7: e77666. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.7.e77666 (2021) (0)
- 2.2 Threat: Agriculture (2015) (0)
- 5.2. Threat: Invasive crustaceans (2015) (0)
- Figure 9 from: Tomaskinova J, Geneletti D, Dicks LV, Grace M, Collier M, Longato D, Stoev P, Sapundzhieva A, Balzan MV (2021) Capacity-building as an instrument to foster the implementation of nature-based solutions. Research Ideas and Outcomes 7: e77666. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.7.e77666 (2021) (0)
- An environment for career success (2006) (0)
- Setting a new benchmark (2006) (0)
- 2.3 Threat: Energy production – wind turbines (2015) (0)
- 11.3. Arable farming (2018) (0)
- 2.10 Threat: Pollution (2015) (0)
- 5.1. Threat: Invasive amphibians (2015) (0)
- 2.4 Threat: Energy production – mining (2015) (0)
- 6.5. Livestock farming and pasture (2015) (0)
- 6.2. Threat: Agriculture and aquaculture (2018) (0)
- 2.5 Threat: Transportation and service corridors (2015) (0)
- RENATURING MALTA: DEVELOPING A CAPACITY-BUILDING STRATEGY FOR THE MAINSTREAMING OF NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS (2021) (0)
- 2.7. Threat: Human disturbance – caving and tourism (2015) (0)
- Figure 12 from: Tomaskinova J, Geneletti D, Dicks LV, Grace M, Collier M, Longato D, Stoev P, Sapundzhieva A, Balzan MV (2021) Capacity-building as an instrument to foster the implementation of nature-based solutions. Research Ideas and Outcomes 7: e77666. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.7.e77666 (2021) (0)
- 1.8 Threat: Invasive and other problematic species (2015) (0)
- 6.12. Actions to complement planting (2018) (0)
- 6.5 Threat: Invasive reptiles (2017) (0)
- Characterization Factors to Assess Land Use Impacts on Pollinator Abundance in Life Cycle Assessment (2023) (0)
- HOW CALCIUM DANCES THROUGH CRAYFISH (2004) (0)
- 4.5. Threat: Residential and commercial development (2015) (0)
- Long‐term experimental drought alters floral scent and pollinator visits in a Mediterranean plant community despite overall limited impacts on plant phenotype and reproduction (2022) (0)
- Mapping nectar-rich pollinator floral resources using airborne multispectral imagery. (2022) (0)
- Supplementary Materials for EU agricultural reform fails on biodiversity (2014) (0)
- Capacity-building as an instrument to foster the implementation of nature-based solutions (2021) (0)
- 3.14 General responses to small/declining populations (2017) (0)
- Enabling ecological intensification of agriculture through policy (2018) (0)
- 4.2. Arable farming (2015) (0)
- Figure 14 from: Tomaskinova J, Geneletti D, Dicks LV, Grace M, Collier M, Longato D, Stoev P, Sapundzhieva A, Balzan MV (2021) Capacity-building as an instrument to foster the implementation of nature-based solutions. Research Ideas and Outcomes 7: e77666. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.7.e77666 (2021) (0)
- Figure 4 from: Tomaskinova J, Geneletti D, Dicks LV, Grace M, Collier M, Longato D, Stoev P, Sapundzhieva A, Balzan MV (2021) Capacity-building as an instrument to foster the implementation of nature-based solutions. Research Ideas and Outcomes 7: e77666. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.7.e77666 (2021) (0)
- Opinion-based bypass : guidance or decision based on experience or opinion Decision support systems Summaries Systema (2014) (0)
- What does the science say? The diversity of methods to synthesize knowledge (2018) (0)
- 7.8. Threat: Invasive and other problematic species and genes (2018) (0)
- 8.3 Arable farming (2015) (0)
- 7.12. Species management (2018) (0)
- 5.11 Actions to improve survival and growth rate of planted trees (2017) (0)
- Figure 8 from: Tomaskinova J, Geneletti D, Dicks LV, Grace M, Collier M, Longato D, Stoev P, Sapundzhieva A, Balzan MV (2021) Capacity-building as an instrument to foster the implementation of nature-based solutions. Research Ideas and Outcomes 7: e77666. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.7.e77666 (2021) (0)
- WHEREFORE ART THOU, ROMEO? (2004) (0)
- 1.12. Habitat restoration and creation (2015) (0)
- 7.13. Livelihood; economic and other incentives (2018) (0)
- Worm brings death to coral (2003) (0)
- What works in conservation? Using expert assessment of summarised evidence to identify practices that enhance natural pest control in agriculture (2016) (0)
- 6.1 Threat: Invasive plants (2017) (0)
- 4.7. Threat: Transport and service corridors (2015) (0)
- 2.11. Providing artificial roost structures for bats (2015) (0)
- 8.9. Threat: Pollution (2018) (0)
- Aligning evidence for use in decisions: mechanisms to link collated evidence to the needs of policy-makers and practitioners (2020) (0)
- Healthy soil, healthy food, healthy people: An outline of the H3 project (2021) (0)
- 5.9 Habitat protection (2017) (0)
- 4.11. Threat: Education and awareness (2015) (0)
- 4.6. Threat: Agri-chemicals (2015) (0)
- My family and other plants (2007) (0)
- 4.8 Threat: Hunting and trapping (for pest control, food or sport) (2015) (0)
- Figure 11b from: Tomaskinova J, Geneletti D, Dicks LV, Grace M, Collier M, Longato D, Stoev P, Sapundzhieva A, Balzan MV (2021) Capacity-building as an instrument to foster the implementation of nature-based solutions. Research Ideas and Outcomes 7: e77666. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.7.e77666 (2021) (0)
- 1.14. Education and awareness raising (2015) (0)
- 3.11. Threat: Invasive alien and other problematic species (2015) (0)
- 2.9 Threat: Invasive species (2017) (0)
- Figure 5 from: Tomaskinova J, Geneletti D, Dicks LV, Grace M, Collier M, Longato D, Stoev P, Sapundzhieva A, Balzan MV (2021) Capacity-building as an instrument to foster the implementation of nature-based solutions. Research Ideas and Outcomes 7: e77666. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.7.e77666 (2021) (0)
- 8.13. Actions to benefit introduced vegetation (2018) (0)
- 3.7 Threat: Biological resource use (2015) (0)
- 4.3 Perennial (non-timber) crops (2015) (0)
- Figure 6 from: Tomaskinova J, Geneletti D, Dicks LV, Grace M, Collier M, Longato D, Stoev P, Sapundzhieva A, Balzan MV (2021) Capacity-building as an instrument to foster the implementation of nature-based solutions. Research Ideas and Outcomes 7: e77666. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.7.e77666 (2021) (0)
- 6.4. Perennial farming (2015) (0)
- 9.1. Ex-situ conservation–breeding amphibians (2018) (0)
- Integrating a crop model with a greenhouse gas calculator to identify low carbon agricultural intensification options for smallholder farmers in rural South Africa (2022) (0)
- Full membership (and authorship) list of the QUINTESSENCE Consortium (2016) (0)
- 1.3 Threat: Energy production and mining (2015) (0)
- 9.3. Promoting natural feeding behaviours in primates in captivity (2018) (0)
- Reviewer Acknowledgments (2013) (0)
- 12. ENHANCING SOIL FERTILITY (2019) (0)
- 3.13 Threat: Climate change, extreme weather and geological events (2015) (0)
- Navigating a shifting agri‐environment policy landscape to conserve butterflies (2022) (0)
- 4.4 Livestock farming (2017) (0)
- 1.11 Habitat protection (2015) (0)
- Teenagers: The original rebels (2005) (0)
- 5.5 Habitat protection (2017) (0)
- Figure 1 from: Tomaskinova J, Geneletti D, Dicks LV, Grace M, Collier M, Longato D, Stoev P, Sapundzhieva A, Balzan MV (2021) Capacity-building as an instrument to foster the implementation of nature-based solutions. Research Ideas and Outcomes 7: e77666. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.7.e77666 (2021) (0)
- 7.10. Education and Awareness (2018) (0)
- 2.8 Threat: Natural system modification – natural fire and fire suppression (2015) (0)
- 4.9 Threat: Natural system modification (2015) (0)
- Blown together by winds of change (2007) (0)
- Curious clouds linked to quakes (2008) (0)
- 6.14. Education and awareness (2018) (0)
- 7. Enhancing soil fertility (2015) (0)
- Sex, parasites and the evolution of men (2004) (0)
- Abundance drives broad patterns of generalisation in plant-1 hummingbird pollination networks 2 3 (2019) (0)
- 3.15. Captive breeding, rearing and releases (ex situ conservation) (2015) (0)
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